--- title: Zebras are nervous, kick and bite and are hard to catch, because the… — Horses, cattle, camels and chickens: how people… · tree and pragmatics description: Zebras are nervous, kick and bite and are hard to catch, because they lived for a very long time alongside lions and human hunters; only a few people ever drove zebra carriages. Who acts: Zebras, few people. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Zebras, few people), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:293-horses-cattle-camels-and-chickens-how-people-tamed-animals.lesson:13 # text = Zebras are nervous, kick and bite and are hard to catch, because they lived for a very long time alongside lions and human hunters; only a few people ever drove zebra carriages. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 293-horses-cattle-camels-and-chickens-how-people-tamed-animals.lesson # annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Zebras zebra NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 2 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 cop _ _ 3 nervous nervous ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 4 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 5 kick kick VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:parataxis 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 7 bite bite VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 9 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 cop _ _ 10 hard hard ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 conj _ _ 11 to to PART TO _ 12 mark _ _ 12 catch catch VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 xcomp _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 14 because because SCONJ IN _ 16 mark _ _ 15 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 16 lived live VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 advcl _ _ 17 for for ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 18 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 19 very very ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 20 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ _ 22 alongside alongside ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 lions lion NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 obl _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 25 human human ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 hunters hunter NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 conj _ _ 27 ; ; PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 28 only only ADV RB _ 33 advmod _ _ 29 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 30 few few ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 amod _ _ 31 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 nsubj _ _ 32 ever ever ADV RB PronType=Ind 33 advmod _ _ 33 drove drive VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj 34 zebra zebra NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 compound _ _ 35 carriages carriage NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 obj _ _ 36 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | Zebras | | | | | nervous *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **kick** | present | Zebras *not said here* | | | | | | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient | | 3 | **bite** | present | Zebras *not said here* | | | | | | vn swat-18.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **is** | present | Zebras *not said here* | | | | | hard *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **catch** | to-infinitive | Zebras *not said here* | | | | | | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **live** | past | Zebras *= zebra* | | | | time | alongside lions and human hunters | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme alongside lion=Location | | 7 | **drive** | past | a few people | zebra carriages | | | ever | | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent carriage=Location | One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree. **Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)**, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, `mova-school-agreed-en.conllu`) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:biology:293-horses-cattle-camels-and-chickens-how-people-tamed-animals.lesson:13`. **The tree:** Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R7-rel-agree ×2. **The frames** are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (`prag`) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence. 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